Mildred Arkell. Vol. 2 (of 3)
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Henry Wood. Mildred Arkell. Vol. 2 (of 3)
CHAPTER I. THE SCHOOL-BOY'S LOVE
CHAPTER II. THE TOUR OF DAVID DUNDYKE, ESQUIRE
CHAPTER III. A MEETING AT GRENOBLE
CHAPTER IV. A MYSTERY
CHAPTER V. HOME, IN DESPAIR
CHAPTER VI. NEWS FOR WESTERBURY
CHAPTER VII. ROBERT CARR'S VISIT
CHAPTER VIII. GOING OVER TO SQUIRE CARR'S
CHAPTER IX. A STARTLED LUNCHEON-TABLE
CHAPTER X. A MISSIVE FOR SQUIRE CARR
CHAPTER XI. THE LAST OF ROBERT CARR
CHAPTER XII. MR. RICHARDS' MORNING CALL
CHAPTER XIII. A DISLIKE THAT WAS TO BEAR ITS FRUITS
CHAPTER XIV. THE EXAMINATION
CHAPTER XV. A NIGHT WITH THE GHOSTS
CHAPTER XVI. PERPLEXITY
CHAPTER XVII. A SHADOW OF THE FUTURE
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Perhaps of all the changes time had wrought, in those connected with our history, not one was more remarkable than that in Mr. and Mrs. Dundyke, in regard to their position in the world. They had changed in themselves of course; we all change; and were now middle-aged people of some five-and-forty years: Mr. Dundyke being red and portly; his wife, thin and meek as ever.
Little by little, step by step, had David Dundyke risen in the world. There had come a day when he was made a fourth partner in that famous tea-importing house, with which he had been so long connected. He was now the third partner, and his income was a large one. There had also come a day when he was elected a common councilman (I am not sure but this has been previously mentioned), and now the old longing, the height of his ambition, was really and truly dawning upon him. In the approaching autumn he was to be proposed for sheriff; and that, as we all know, leads in time to the civic chair.
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"Pardon, monsieur, plait-il?"
"Some—mut—ton—chops," repeated the common-councilman, very deliberately, thinking that the slower he spoke, the better he should be understood. "And let 'em look sharp about it."
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